If anyone could recommend any pointers or solutions I would really appreciate it. I haven't been able to use it for a week now and a few emerge syncs and update deep and revdep-rebuilds later it hasn't changed much.

Last edited by PM17E5 on Wed Apr 10, 2013 1:00 pm; edited 2 times in total

I'm trying to fix this by experimenting with mplayer-9999 and I'm getting all sorts of errors. I got an error related to opengl, then one with jpeg, so I disabled both of those use flags (hopefully I won't need them), and it's just one error after another:

I'm currently using =media-video/mplayer-1.1-r1 with =media-video/ffmpeg-1.1.4 (masked) with no issues. I did briefly try ffmpeg-1.2 but mplayer wasn't happy about it. The mp_codec_id2tag error above seems to be due to having +mp3 useflag, I would disable it as libavcodec can decode mp3 without this.

I don't have much else that depends on ffmpeg and so haven't seen any possible breakage due to unmasking, so YMMV, but it works fine here.

Hmm, I've tried changing some useflags around to remove more features I don't need. Basically I used it watch an occasional downloaded movie or play mp3 files. Thanks for the tip about vorbis being able to handle them, I didn't know that. So I tried to apply this and still get the same error:

I'm confused now, I thought you were trying to build ffmpeg-1.0.4 to meet the chromium dependency? Anyhow, I can't see what the issues is, I should probably ask what version of gcc, MAKEOPTS (emerge --info) as I see nothing on b.g.o that resembles this ... and with the above you are merging the stable mplayer with the stable ffmpeg.

All I'm doing is trying to get mplayer to work. It's got lib issues so it won't start ever since I upgraded ffmpeg. I upgraded ffmpeg to meet the chromium dependency. Now mplayer will not compile no matter what. I cannot find other instances of people having this on the net. My emerge --info is:

All I'm doing is trying to get mplayer to work. It's got lib issues so it won't start ever since I upgraded ffmpeg. I upgraded ffmpeg to meet the chromium dependency.

PM17E5 ... sorry, I'd read the above ffmpeg-1.0.6 as 1.0.4 (stable) ... and had thought you needed >= 1.1.4 to meet the chromium dependency. Anyhow, as I first stated for > 1.0.4 you should update to the masked packages, ffmpeg-1.1.4 in conjunction with mplayer-1.1-r1 work here, but I've just built ffmpeg-1.2 and mplayer-9999 as CasimirCelerity suggested and they also build and work fine (with limited testing).

I have nothing other than mplayer that depends on ffmpeg and so again YMMV.